• Three hikers died over the weekend in the Pyrenees after falls.

  • The members of the CRS in the mountains had to make nine helicopter trips on Sunday to help hikers, victims of falls or illnesses.

  • Rescuers appeal for caution as the holidays begin.

Mountain rescue services had to intervene on numerous occasions over the weekend for accidents in the Pyrenees, including three fatalities. Saturday morning, a mountaineer in his thirties lost his life when he fell 40 meters, at the level of the small Pic du Midi d'Ossau, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

The next day, the CRS in the mountains of Gavarnie intervened at midday in the Lahude sector, near Barèges.

"A Parisian hiker lost his balance on a path, at the level of a steep grassy slope, he slipped over 200 m and was never able to stop", explains Sébastien Abbadie, the head of the CRS in Mountain.

It was the wife of the septuagenarian who notified the emergency services.

When they arrived on site with the Civil Security helicopter and a doctor from Samu 64, the latter could only note his death.

Nine helicopter tours for CRS

Throughout the weekend, while the heat was intense, interventions multiplied, including nine by helicopter in the departments of Hautes-Pyrénées and Haute-Garonne on Sunday.

Several cases of discomfort, at Vignemale or Superbagnères were taken care of, as well as a person who had a serious fall on a mountain bike at the peak of Jer, above Lourdes.

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At the end of the day, on Sunday, members of the CRS were called to try to locate from the air a hiker who got lost while trying to geolocate his cell phone.

It was the gendarmes of the high mountain platoon who found the lifeless body of the 68-year-old man who fell.

At the start of the holiday, the rescuers recall the importance of carrying out outings adapted to one's physical condition and technical level.

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